Toastmasters Club 1600 held the Legacy Leadership Banquet over the weekend at the Baha Mar Resort where 60 people who have helped to shape the club since its inception were honoured.
President of the 1st Branch of Toastmasters Club 1600, Cameron Reckley spoke with ZNS News on the sidelines. He said, “these gentleman are stalwarts in the country and these gentleman have a legacy throughout the whole entire country so we found it fitting to honour each and everyone of our past presidents.”
Prime Minister, the Hon. Philip Davis, who is also a Distinguished Toastmaster, was among those honoured on Saturday. He told the gathering, “I joined Toastmasters as a young man because I thought I needed to become a better speaker and leader and I think I did. I learnt how to think. I learnt how to wait. I learnt how to make room for someone else’s words an I began to understand what it meant to serve.”
Mr. Davis also appealed to club members to help young men in the country. “Find a young man and listen to him, bring him with you to a meeting, give him time not just advice, teach him how to prepare a thought and how to deliver it with care. Help him to grow, not because it makes you look good because it is the right thing to do. That may not be glamourous, it may not be celebrated, but it is, I think, what legacy should look like,” he said.
Among the other honourees were Anthony Longley, Keith Major and Clement Foster. Longley told ZNS News, “we join these organizations and we grow into these leadership positions but we don’t do it to be recognized.”
Foster said, “any time your peers and your compatriots believe that you have done something that’s good enough to be recognized and they recognize you its an excellent feeling, its humbling.”
